Dialogues des Courtisanes de Lucien de Samosate
Edouard Chimot, Lucien [Lucian]Paris: Emile Chamontin, 1936.
First Thus.
19cm x 14cm. 157 pages, 10 colour plates. Three quarter leather, decorative papered boards, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers, with the original wrappers bound in. Text is in French
First edition with Chimot’s nude illustrations of Greek courtesans. One of the 3,000 numbered copies on velin from an edition of 3,150. This copy with the bookplate of Swiss bibliophile Paul Schlesinger.
Minor discolouration to spine. Very minor shelf wear and foxing. Near Fine Condition.
AU$200